They have got a small army of children’s cereal mascots to choose from. And hey, once upon a time, Quaker Oats owned a video game division. Briefly. (Very briefly.) I say go for it!
lol… Tekkaman Blade is somewhere in-between the lines of simply being overpowered to OMG WTF U CHEAP OVER9000POWERED BASTARD. 
He has like 7 moves, and all of them are Divine Death Dealing Destruction of Doom.
[color=green]VOLTEKKA!!![/color]
Haven’t unlocked Zero yet. I’ll save him for tomorrow after work. Gotta have something to look forward to. 8)
UPDATE
I’ve noticed that TB here, has several counter attacks, at least two anti-anti counters, at least another two anti-anti-anti-anti counters. Plus his Voltekka is 100% designed to takedown “from the air” assaults. Looks like his slow walking speed is supposed to be his weakness, but since he has a special move that jets him across the screen in no time flat - and can be spammed - that’s totally irrelevant. Unlike the obsolete Tekkaman, TB can never lose his tekka-lance (he has that monowire thing). My God how I love his cheesiness. :twisted:
TB is a pure offensive killing machine, who can easily repel attempts to stop him from being an offensive killing machine. I think he’ll be seen in the tourneys quite a lot. I’ve been teaming him up with Casshern, simply because Casshern is also a badass in and out the game. :lol:
On the other hand, I’ve been able to break TB’s rhythm using a fireball + counter puncher to play keep away (though not turtling; that’s suicide with TB). Ryu obviously is a first choice. Still experimenting, to see exactly how fast TB can move through the air, and exploit the “one second opening” between Ryu’s special attacks.
UPDATE 2
The Tekkaman Blade combo video’s are starting to get out. :o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZS9SHmiTPE
Rawr for double [color=green]VOLTEKKA!!![/color] at the end.
Uber Rawr for triple [color=green]VOLTEKKA!!![/color] though.
Ah… one character did get cut. 
The rumor mill goes that the Italian company holding the IP rights outside of Japan, refused to make an exception. Here’s a really shitty recording of him in the Japanese original: